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Cities Quote by Greg Lake

“You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.” quote by Greg Lake — Download Open image

“You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.”

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I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them,…

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I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple…

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It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

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Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art…

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Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go…

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I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.

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I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to…

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As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and…

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Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

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Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of…

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Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Mortimer Zuckerman

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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

James Cross Giblin

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Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

Patrick Modiano

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I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want…

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Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,…

Lawrence Summers

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John F. Kennedy

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I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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